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Interview no. | U-0764 |
Restrictions | Permission of interviewee and interviewer required to quote from interview. |
Project | U.19. Long Civil Rights Movement: Breaking New Ground |
Project description | Interviews, 2011-2012, conducted for the Breaking New Ground: A History of American Farm Owners Since the Civil War project. This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and was coordinated by Adrienne Petty (of the City College of New York) and Mark Schultz (of Lewis University in Illinois) with assistance from Jacquelyn Hall. Interviews were conducted by two cohorts of research fellows and centered on African American farmers', landowners', and descendants' political, social, and economic experiences in the American South from the Civil War onward. |
Date | 25 May 2011 |
Interviewee | Wilson, Joyce Louise. |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Eric Jonas. |
Abstract | Mrs. Joyce Louise Wilson has been a major figure within her small rural village, the Magnolia community since move to the community with her husband in the mid 1950s. The first half of the interview consisted of Mrs. Wilson providing an outline of her family history beginning with the oldest family member she could remember as a child her great grandmother Lucinda Jackson who was born a slave. Mrs. Wilson's interview does provide a really good contrast between sharecroppers (her family of origin) and African American landowners (her family of marriage). Mrs. Wilson (last third of the interview) does a good job in linking the effects of World War II (Air Force base in Decatur County Georgia) upon sharecroppers and landowners in her community. |
Citation | Interview with Joyce Louise Wilson by Jonas Stephens, 25 May 2011 U-0764, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | U0764_Audio |